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Re: Review of --enable-gold=both patch

On 06/28/2010 06:13 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: 
>  Secondarily, the patch allows to choose which linker is used by default
>  (the choice between "--enable-gold=both/ld" and
>  "--enable-gold=both/gold").  Choosing the right option here is a tricky
>  choice, but I think it fits more into the "--enable" side.


Paolo, for avoidance of doubt, I'll stay out of this; you are, of
course, eminently qualified to decide the desired interface.  I think my
key point was that I didn't like --enable-gold being abused to also
enable/disable GNU ld, and I think you agree, so I'm entirely content.

I'm afraid we do need to "abuse" it to decide what linker will be the default. However, --enable-gold disabling ld is a wart of the current code that can be fixed (and should be fixed) with this patch.

If Joseph has comments on my proposal, I look forward to them.

I do think it would be good to get this functionality into GCC so that
people can more easily experiment with GOLD vs. your father's GNU linker.

Agreed 100%---however let's make sure we get the interface right the second time through.

Paolo

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